JOHN MEANEY

COGNITIVE RESONANCE

23.10.17

Books are imminent

And so, it begins...

In part to whet the appetite for my new contemporary cyber thriller, Destructor Function, I have two books about to appear in fresh, revised editions. For the first time under my real name, Edge and Point are about to reappear.

There's a thematic similarity here, since the two books featuring Josh Cumberland explore the links between traditional action-adventure (with ex-special forces operators) and 21st century cyber expertise, while Destructor Function, featuring no-first-name Case and his formidable partner Kat, brings the same concerns to the present day.

On the other hand, the political backdrop to Edge and Point seems even more, well, pointed than before, especially the off-stage events in America. The story's setting, though, is near-future Britain, a world of flash floods and whirlwinds and electrical storms, of political corruption and a legalized knife culture, but still a place where people, for the most part, just get on with their lives.

Josh is tortured by family tragedy, and Eric Brown, reviewing Edge for the Guardian, used some very kind words to describing him, including "a masterclass in characterisation".

My new protagonist Case, appearing shortly, is less embattled than Josh, but his mind doesn't quite work like other people's, and that creates a different kind of tension.

About Me

John Meaney is a lifelong martial artist, a computer consultant with degrees in physics and computer science, and a trained hypnotist.

As an author of several series, he has won the IPPY Award and been a finalist for the BSFA Award multiple times.

A new series of contemporary cyber thrillers features Case, a spec-ops cyber specialist who hears voices in his head. And then there's his fearsome partner Kat...

His near-future thrillers feature Josh Cumberland, an ex-special forces cyber specialist driven by family tragedy, desperate to do good in a near-future Britain wracked by climate change, a legalized knife culture and political corruption.

The Donal Riordan novels feature a detective in the spooky city of Tristopolis, where the sky is darkest purple and the city’s reactors are powered by the bones of the dead.

His seven Pilots novels include the Ragnarok trilogy, which begins with alien influences on humans at the dawn of the Viking era, includes the birth of the digital age at Bletchley Park, and concludes a million years from now with a conflict against forces from beyond a cosmic void.